Magus Of Possibilities

An "original" grimoire refers to a book containing knowledge about magic allowing the reader to possibly become a magician. They are considered to be powerful tools with esoteric knowledge and powerful magic spells written in them.

It is harmful to all who dare read its contents

Principles:

As stated, original grimoires are harmful as reading its contents would drive a human into insanity, and are even harmful to those that are trained to handle them.

what is written inside of a grimoire is of a different world, and contradicts common sense, a knowledge that is far too alien to be safely comprehensible to any normal human. The knowledge that a grimoire possesses is "poisonous" in the sense that it is too "pure" for the human mind to handle and must be "watered down" - i.e. written in such a way that many of its meanings are obscured—in order for people to be able to read it without their minds being destroyed.Once a human is stained with the poison that is the contents of a grimoire

it is impossible to think or act the same way you did before reading it is because of this reason that most if not all magicians have an eccentric personality but even magi suffer from this in pursuing a way to reach the root

Types of grimoires:

A grimoire doesn't have to be in the shape of a book, for example: Aztec grimoires being written on animal skins and in stone tablets.

It is possible to create and write grimoires in any shape. For Example in a form of disposable grimoires comprising flashcards, which allows the user to use many different kinds of spells. Its drawbacks include its inability to cast the same spell twice with the same flashcard, so the user has to keep writing grimoires in order to move forward; and its instability makes it destroy itself after a few weeks at best, as such it is not exactly a true grimoire.

Abilities and Behavior:

A grimoire is practically "eternal" in the sense that it cannot be destroyed with current human methods (such as burning) and can only be sealed away. Original grimoires can apparently convert the words that are written inside their pages into magical code, which can be described as an semi-permanent magic circle or spell. The grimoires use the small amounts of energy released by nature or life force as well as the weak magical energy released by humans, because of this attribute of acting like an semi-permanent magic circle, a grimoire can never be truly destroyed.For example, a grimoire such as the Aztec Calendar Stone has an automatic Interception Spell that could defend against any type of attack.

The structure of a grimoire is compared to that of a Magic Circle, with Stiyl demonstrating how a magic circle written with words can end up having 2 or 3 additional lines surrounding the original circle, like sentences on a page.

Sentience:

Grimoires are seemingly sentient enough to disclose its contents to people who dėsɨrė information from it. Grimoires can apparently identify whether someone was a "reader" or "not a reader", and have the tendency to cooperate with those who would propagate the information with their contents.

As such, a magus could trick the decision-making capabilities of the grimoire under the belief that they could act as an evangelist for its knowledge. Regardless of this, the contents of the grimoire is still dangerous to anyone who reads it and those who attempt to take control of the grimoire. It is currently unknown if a grimoire is aware that they are dangerous to people.

If the grimoire judges its current owner to be unsuitable, it will kill him/her and seek out the next one,

when a grimoire actually killed its wielder as he/she was inadvertently trying to prevent it's knowledge from being handed down .

Countermeasures:

One theoretical way to destroy a grimoire is to write data that will force it to destroy itself into it because of reducing the purity of the knowledge contained making it less "pure". However, it is unknown if someone has successfully managed this, as the writer still needs to see the pages of the grimoire to actually write down the code, and even a mere glimpse of a grimoire is already dangerous.

It is unknown if the writer of an original grimoire can destroy their own creations.

It should be noted that when a magician has been enough skill, they can read the contents of a Grimoire and not suffer from its contamination

Grimoires can be prevented from autonomously activating through the use of grimoire-shaped decoys arranged in a certain formation next to them to confuse their ability to recognize themselves. Grimoires try to indiscriminately spread their information, and blurring the line between what it views as itself and something else prevents the Grimoire from determining how far it should send its information into a subject, leaving it effectively spinning its wheels without accomplishing anything.

Politics:

grimoires carry a somewhat heavy political pull, with it containing powerful spells as well as being indestructible, because of these, grimoires are sealed in their respective holding places such as libraries and cannot normally be stolen.

Grimoires are also used by the organizations keeping them to promote themselves, as with the case with the Mages Association and Certain Families, Furthermore, a lost grimoire could spell turmoil between the magic organizations

As such, magic societies will not simply leak the contents of the grimoires they keep for no reason